3 From last night 2 nebulas and a Galaxy ( plus a hubble comparison lol )

A beautiful night but a frustrating one as for some reason my sensor on my DSLR seems to be becoming very noisy maybe I'm pushing it too hard

Anyway - the Butterfly nebula around Sadr in Cygnus
http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/b.../Smallsadr.jpg

The Andromeda Galaxy - again more noisy than I would like but better than last year at this height
http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/b...allM31jpeg.jpg

And the image that started me getting excited about photographing the heavens was this - the Pillars of creation in the Eagle nebula - each column a light year high with a star being produced at the very tip

http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/i...-web_print.jpg

This had been my intended target all night but unfortunately it lies to the south of the house where I have trees and at the moment the nebula was between them we had a cloud drift by - so instead of the usual 30 frames I had 3 and to cap it all I used the wrong ISO setting so this has been heavily processed - but if you look in the middle you can just make out the tiny columns that Hubble showed so well
http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/b...onrubbish1.jpg

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Stunning, Chris!

Absolutely, mind bogglingly, beautiful!

And glad to see you having the time to be back to doing some of the things you enjoy! :yes:

Tom (:macwave:... still grappling with this really big universe stuff.)

I just run out of superlatives to describe your images Chris. Just completely amazing

Wow!

Wow they are amazing i had to call hilda in to come and have a look as well

How do you do that? :mental:

awesome photos as usual chris...WOW!!!

do you have to play with your images to get all the colours?

Thanks chaps. No the colours are all there

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Originally Posted by Skywatcher

Thanks chaps. No the colours are all there

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wow

keep em coming i just luv your pix chris :)